Set Password from snippet

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cschimanski Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago

How can i set the password from a snippet for a user?

i tried getObject(’modUser’, ...) then save()

and it set a new password but it is not md5 format. i tried a clean password without encryption and with encryption but the saved password looks not like md5 and i can not use it to login.
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opengeek Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago
Passwords are stored using a configurable hashing algorithm in MODX Revolution 2.1+. Any legacy users created in 2.0.x deployments that have been upgraded to 2.1 will have modMD5 as the hash_class while new users created in 2.1 will by default use modPBKDF2. Regardless of which hash_class a user has, you can easily set the password...
```
<?php
$user = $modx->getObject('modUser', array('username' => 'TED'));
if ($user) {
    $user->set('password', 'thisismypassword!');
    $user->save();
}
```
and it will automatically be hashed using the hash_class specified for the user.
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